Guitarist Mark Tremonti (ALTER BRIDGE, CREED) is featured in a new interview with Jane Van Arsdale at LocalBozo.com discussing his new TREMONTI solo album, All I Was. An excerpt is available below:

LocalBozo.com: All I Was was released back in July and was a project that was a long time coming. How much of a challenge was just finding the time to record this album with so many other projects seemingly going on at once?

MT: "You know, it was actually pretty easy. We had a three month window when (Alter Bridge frontman) Myles (Kennedy) was out with SLASH. I had a bunch of ideas just stockpiled and stuff and figured it was a good time to get together with a couple friends and record some ideas. At first it was just going to be a project and once we got going with it we got real excited about it and now we’re pushing it as much as we can. I’d come on and off a tour and just knock out bit by bit every time I had a break from a tour and finally got it done."

LocalBozo.com: Was the plan for you to handle the vocal work on this album all along?

MT: "From the get go I decided to do the singing. Doing the solo record, I think a lot of people thought, me being a guitar player, it would be mostly a guitar driven record. But when I’m working, most of my time is spent writing vocal melodies and writing songs. And that’s what I’ve done all these years, so I wanted the solo record to kind of be what I’m really about which is writing these vocal melodies and now actually just singing them."

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An extended trailer for All I Was can be seen below. Fret12 talks to Mark Tremonti and company about how this record came to fruition in this brand new eight minute behind-the-scenes trailer. Interlaced with never-before-heard live audio (recorded by the legendary Johnny K live at Groovemaster Studios in Chicago), you are about to hear more of the story unfold, told by the musicians themselves. This teaser features live audio/video clips of fan-favorites such as 'New Way Out', 'Wish You Well' and 'So You're Afraid'.

Tremonti will embark on the Harddrive Live Tour next week. Confirmed dates are as follows:

September

11 - West Greenwich, RI - Rock Junction
12 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
20 - Flint, MI - The Machine Shop
21 - Lancaster, PA - The Chameleon Club
23 - Chicago, IL - House Of Blues
25 - New Britain, CT - Club INT
26 - West Chester, PA - The Note
28 - Orlando, FL - The Beacham Theater
29 - Atlanta, GA - Vinyl
30 - Birmingham, AL - Club Zydeco

October

2 - Nashville, TN - Exit In
3 - Kansas City, MO - The Beaumont Club
5 - Shreveport, LA - The Riverside Warehouse

When Mark Tremonti spoke to BraveWords.com scribe Aaron Small recently, he revealed “The only way we (Tremonti) would play Alter Bridge or Creed (songs live) is if one of the guys was in the crowd and we called him out to come up and play. It’s definitely just going to be our stuff. There’s ideas that aren’t turned into complete songs yet, that we can play a big freestyle jam with just to make it interesting. But that’s going to take time, so we’ll see what we come up with.”